The five rings of the Olympics stand for the colours of five continents. Different genres of art convey all sorts of feelings of mankind. Meet in Beijing 2008 was an Olympic of arts and demonstrated its diversity within the frame of a harmonious cultural landscape.

Green represents peace and harmony as well as happy union of the five continents; yellow stands for glory and classics as well as human civilization; red means creativity and passion, which is a color of inspiration and rhythm; black symbolizes dialectical thinking and inheritance, which is the symbol of drama and theatre; blue is a musical colour of world-class symphonies.

Meet in Beijing 2008 Olympic Cultural Activities was launched on May 12 with the first performance on June 23, and closed on September 19. Nearly 10,000 artists from 110 troupes of more than 80 countries and regions performed in the span of over 6 months to an audience exceeding 3 million, echoing the notion of the people’s Olympics. Its over 200 cultural activities were strong supplement to the Beijing Olympics and Paralympics.